Seminary Poems - Poems about Seminary

... “Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.” - John Wesley While he was at a tent revival with a friend, He......Read the rest...

... GREEN DAY – revisited Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted wi......Read the rest...

...The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years; He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears! He had baptized hordes of kids and officiated whe......Read the rest...

...I I am not BIRD Yet in the Word I am often eagle, winged In strength, your protection And so, Let there be Light (versus Love) is no oversight Because my light is fraction Of my love in actio......Read the rest...

...When I was in seminary my spiritual director advised me to notice, as had he, that there are two kinds of: Clergy Those who understand their calling as to coldly forgive and heatedly chall......Read the rest...

...The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine if still alive seven years shy attaining age of centenarian father of civil rights movement, the rev......Read the rest...

...A common misconception God can do anything, That nothing is beyond God’s power to achieve I hope you’ll excuse my examples on the wing, None reflect on God, in whom we should believe. I......Read the rest...

...I, for one, am not racing to the top! I arrived there on so many occasions before. I remember well my high school diploma, My first day in college, My first day on my first job, Walking across t......Read the rest...

...(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of racial prejudice courtesy of sharecropper grandparents whose objection to racial segregation based on an affront to the will of God, whereby the you......Read the rest...

...I recall from Catholic seminal seminary daze, Frocked monastic gaze vowed nerve-systemic chastity, self-sacrificing poverty, political obedience to a Great StraightMale Master of God's para......Read the rest...

...My poem is patterned after John Crowe Ransom's "Blue Girls." I suppose you could call it a parody. His poem appears below mine. Styling in your leggings, wildly designed, Strutting to classes i......Read the rest...

...Immanuel Kant, changed the spelling of his name from Emmanuel to "Immanuel" to accord with its Hebrew meaning: "God is with us." So, this quintessential Enlightenment thinker - and Thomas Jefferson ......Read the rest...

...Five score minus eight years ago January eighteenth two thousand twenty one father of civil rights movement the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored as benevolent demigod figure to the oppr......Read the rest...

...A young lad of twelve I found myself At the altar in our small country church Confessing my sins, To insure my spiritual health. Then came the call to serve as a pastor Grandma had always said......Read the rest...

...After my timely sermon on the ascension, An inquisitive lad with piercing eyes and dark unruly hair about five years old, I'd say, tugged at my robe while I greeted worshippers. "Let's go home, ......Read the rest...